Athlete's Salary Caps

Narrative Speech Outline Intro - Attention Getter :In today’s society, one will be paid more if their job is more economically important. So what professions do we define as economically important? Teachers, doctors, public defenders, The President of the United States. Explain relevance of narrative to audience: When I was watching TV the other day they were talking about a player who wanted to be traded to another team mainly because he wasn’t getting paid enough, yet his salary was capped at over $5 million a year. Now I don’t about you, but this definitely made me think about the bigger picture and what’s really taking place in society. Thesis and preview of main points: Do you think an athlete plays as near as vital role in the economy as teachers or even the president? Statistically speaking, athletes are 10 times more important. Some people may think back on high school when their economics teacher talked about capitalism and supply and demand. There are a low supply of good athletes and a high demand to viewer like you and I. Did you ever think of it like this? There are a high demand of students who want to go to school and learn, but there are a low supply of teachers due to the budget cuts here in our own school. Now how does that workout? In the 1996 NBA season playing 3,106 minutes,Michael Jordan made $170,000 a day, equaling out to be $160.97 a second. From now to the end of my speech I would have made about $29,000. Do you think these games should be played for fun rather than for millions of dollars? These athletes sometimes go through life threatening injuries for the love of the game. Considering this, one might think that these athletes do it for the love of the game not for the money.Do you think professional athletes are making too much money in a society where salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one’s work? In today's society, a person will be paid more if their job is more economically important....

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...The NBA Salarycap is an interesting topic. It is a little different than other sports' salarycaps. A salarycap is a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on player contracts. (Coon, 1) Although the NBA has a salarycap, teams can still go over the amount of the cap and are allowed. The NBA Salarycap is considered to be a soft cap because of the exceptions teams can use to pay more money for certain players and go over the salarycap. In other sports they may not have a certain limit on how much money a team can spend on a player or their team. Baseball for example, they are allowed to spend as much money as they want on a team. That is why the New York Yankees have a lot of big name players with high paying contracts. In most other sports there is a limit though on how much you can spend on a team. Teams gain revenue from tickets purchased, food and beverages sold at the game, parking, television, advertising, merchandising fees, and corporate sponsors. (Judson, 73) This revenue is what teams are able to pay for the players. So is it a good thing for the NBA to have a salarycap? Also does this really make the competition in the league really any better between the teams?
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...Salarycaps are used in all pro sports and can impact any team. Caps are imposed limits on the money a team can spend on their players salaries.
Salaries in pro sports are becoming out of control and reaching 100 million dollars.
Teams are becoming unbalanced and are losing profits. Salarycaps should be used in pro sports.
Did you know that Michael Vick now makes nearly 100 million dollars a year?
He is even making this much after missing over two years of football and being thrown in jail for dog fighting.
The average salary of a NFL player is about $770,000 yet the average salary for a teacher is about $42,000.
Even after players make millions, they can make more from endorsing products.
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Maybe salaries based more on performance would help," Salarycaps are already at very large sums.
Salarycaps help players earn decent amounts of money, but not too much, and should be used in all pro sports.
Teams in all sports are becoming unbalanced.
Teams such as the Patriots(NFL) and Yankees(MLB) have become the more powerful teams because of their money.
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...Athletes' Salaries
Professional sports in America have always been a popular subject among the public. The sports industry has prospered so much from the country's 270 million consumers that it is now one of the leading billion dollar industries in the world. Even though professional sporting events bring one of the largest fan bases in the world, a growing majority of fans are becoming more and more disenchanted with the high-priced industry due to escalating salaries. Many fans are tired of paying the high prices for tickets because of the athlete'ssalaries; however, understanding the evolution of the current salaries for professional athletes may lead to understanding current effects and efforts to prevent further escalation. Salaries are business contracts between the owner and player, a relationship between employer and employee-not the domain of social policy (Eskin n. pag.). However, that does not mean that the consumer's money is not a factor. The sports industry acquires a lot of it's money from what the public willingly pays for tickets and products. Professional sports teams have the money to dish out and create all the substantial salaries due to all of its sources of income.
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...and player salaries are no exception. Teams of different sport like basketball, baseball, soccer and football spend a lot of money on their players which is ridiculous not just for the fact that they paying that amount of money but the fact that millions of money which can be minimize are being paid to a player that if he decide not to play, no one will harm player, which brings me to saying that reduce the ability of the richest teams to bid up the price of players and, salaries are sure to fall and mandatory would be on salarycap towards what professional athletes make.
Athlete are paid large amount of money, from my own view sound unreasonable. Come to think of it, sports like baseball, basket, football and soccer spend a lot of money on hiring of their players for example the “New York Yankees outspend all other baseball teams in terms of payroll. Alex Rodriguez to say, the Yankees’ third baseman, is the highest paid player in the history of baseball, earning $33 million for the 2009 season. Notably, the $33 million is only a base salary, and does not take into account any performance-based bonuses Rodriguez may receive for achieving certain offensive statistics or milestones during the season, or rewarding him for making the All-Star team”.
These players are that getting millions just for them to sit on bench and might not even play a game if they feel like or they are or injury, bad...

...should be thought of as a competitive sport where any team can win day in and day out. Many people probably want more parity in baseball and would like a salarycap proposed. However, baseball has as much, if not more, parity than any sport including basketball and football both of which have salarycaps. In football there is no chance of the Raiders winning the Super Bowl and in basketball the Knicks have no chance of winning an NBA title. The Marlins have a whole roster that costs less than some players' contracts individually, yet they played like a playoff team the last sixty games of the season. Lower market teams have many ways of competing with the higher market teams. Baseball is the easiest sport for a lower market team to compete with a higher market team; consequently, the parity from an economic prospective is unfair, but the playing of teams with small payrolls is showing an increase of equality.
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...The SalaryCap
Ever since the beginning of baseball, the salaries of the players have continued to rise. Some teams are being left further and further behind because they cannot pay the huge amounts that big name players demand. In the past twenty years, we have seen the increased need for a salarycap. With a salarycap, more teams would be able to compete with the more financially inclined franchises. If more teams can compete for titles, then they will be more entertaining and more people would turn out to the games.
Without the salarycap, teams can throw as much money as they want at a player until the player agrees to play for them. This can become unfair for the smaller franchises. Typically, big name players play for big name teams. Just because a team is not based in a famous city, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be given the opportunity to be a well-rounded franchise. Small market teams should not have to suffer because they have less money. This happens every season because, as Ira Berkow points out, “ …teams from large cities would be able to purchase the best players and the teams from small markets would no longer be competitive.” (Berkow, 1994). That’s exactly what has been happening for the past twenty years. There is a reason why the same teams manage to be in the playoffs, and the World Series every year. These are...